Corset garment



S. T. METZ CORSET GARMENT May 9, 1939.

Filed Nov. 11, 1956 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 1.1.2111 I l 0 w INVENTOR.

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CORSET GARMENT Filed Nov. 11, 1936 2 Sheets-Shet 2 INVENTOR.

ATTORNEYS Patented May 9, 1939 UNITED STATES CORSET GARMENT Samuel T.Metz, Jamaica, N. Y., assignor to Treo Company, Inc., Jamaica, N. Y., acorporation of New York Application November 11, 1936, Serial No.110,243

1 Claim.

My invention relates to a new and improved girdle or other garment,which encloses the waist and hips.

One of the objects of my invention is to provide a garment of the girdleor corset type which will be properly fitted at the waist portion and inwhich the waist portion will not bend or bulge when the body of the useris bent or twisted. Said garment is slitted at its side-lines in thewaist portion of the garment. These slits are vertical in the preferredembodiment, but said slits may be defined as being longitudinal, inorder to avoid limiting the invention to slits which are truly vertical.

Another object of my invention is to provide a garment of this typehaving side panels of improved construction.

Another object of my invention is to provide the side portions or panelsof the garment with elastic or tension straps arranged so as to producethe above mentioned desirable effects.

Other objects of my invention will be set forth in the followingdescription and drawings which illustrate a preferred embodimentthereof, it being understood that the above statement of the objects ofmy invention is intended to generally explain the same without limitingit in any manner. I

Fig. 1 is a front elevation of the improved garment, part of therepresentation of the front wall of one of the side panels having beenomitted, in order to show the parts more clearly.

Figs. 2 and 3 are respectively sectional views on the lines 2-2 and 33of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a detail inner elevation showing the inner construction of oneof the side panels.

Fig. 5 is a sectional View on the line 5-5 of Fig. 4.

It has heretofore been proposed to shape girdles and other garments soas to conform. to the natural contour of the waist of the user. However,in garments of this type the waist portion of the garment bent or bulgedobjectionably, especially when the body of the user was bent to one sideor the other.

As shown in Fig. 3, the garment generally comprises front and rearpanels I and 2, and side panels 3 and 4. The front and rear panels canbe made in the usual manner from two layers of fabric 5 and 6, and thisfabric is preferably nonelastic, although I do not wish to be limited tothe selection of fabrics.

The edges of the fabric layers 5 and 6 are connected by lines ofstitches l and 8, and additional binding strips may be employed, similarto the binding strip shown at the top of Fig. 5 and which will be laterdescribed.

The front panel is provided with a vertical row of hookless fasteners H,which are provided with a slide 9, in the usual manner. The front panelis also provided with vertical elastic bones l0 and I004. The frontpanel is also provided with a strip of fabric II which overlies theinner surfaces of the hookless fasteners, and said fabric strip ll maybe connected to the inner surface of the adjacent part of the garment bymeans of fastening devices [2, which may be hooks and eyes and the like.The bottom of the front panel is provided with an elastic tapered insertl4 which is horizontally stretchable but which has little or no verticalstretch. The rear panel is likewise provided with a tapered insert l 5at the top thereof, and this insert I5 is likewise preferablyhorizontally stretchable and elastic and it has little or no verticalstretch.

The rear panel of the garment is likewise provided with short andinclined elastic members or bones l6 and lBa which are located insuitable pockets. One of these pockets I1 is shown in Fig. 1.

The side panels 3 and 4 are made of elastic fabric or material, and saidfabric or material is preferably elastic only in the horizontalcondition although the material of the side panels may also bestretchable in the vertical direction, if desired. Each of the sidepanels 3 and 4 has a vertical slit which begins at its top edge andwhich is spaced from its bottom edge so as to provide two top sections.The top sections of panel 3 are connected below the reinforcing stripsl9 by fagoting stitches l8 and the top sections of panel 4 are connectedby fagoting stitches I811.

The construction of these fagoting stitches is shown in sufficientdetail in Fig. 4 and no detail description thereof is necessary, sincethese stitches are made by a well-known machine, which is known to thetrade.

It will be noted that these yieldable fagoting stitches are spaced fromthe top and bottom edges of the finished side panels 3 and 4. Theyextend substantially from said top and bottom edges up to the widestpart of the girdle, as shown in Fig. 1, so that the slits at theside-lines of the garment extend into substantially its entire waistportion. The top and bottom edges of the side panels are provided withreinforcing strips I9, which are stitched to said top and bottom edgesof the side panels.

As shown in Fig. 3, the inner walls of the side panels are provided withreinforcing strips 20 and 20a. These reinforcing strips are identical insize and shape. These strips 20 and 20a are preferably made ofnon-elastic material and they are connected to the elastic material ofsaid side panels by means of stitches 22. Each said strip 20 or 20aoverlies the edges of the sections of a side panel 3 or 4.

As shown in Fig. 2, each of these reinforcing strips extends to the topand bottom of the respective side panel, and the upper portion of eachsaid reinforcing strip is cut or slit so that the fagoting stitches l8connect the inner slit edges of these reinforcing strips 20 and 20a tothe adjacent separated walls of the elastic side panels.

Elastic straps 23 and 23a are arranged in two parallel series, which areinclined to each other. The upper ends of said straps are connected tosubstantially vertical reinforcing strips 24 which are provided at theopposite vertical edge portions of the inner walls of the side elasticpanels. The reenforcing strips 24 are stitched to the side panels and tothe front and rear panels. The lower ends of these elastic straps 23 and23a are located between the reinforcing strips 20 and 20a and theelastic side panels.

As shown in Fig. 2, each of the reinforcing strips 20 and 20a has twotapered portions which are oppositely tapered. Hence the effective orfree portions of the elastic straps 23 and 23a increase in length fromthe straps 23 and 23a at the widest parts of strips 20 and 20a, aboveand below said widest parts of strips 20 and 20a. Said tension straps 23and 23a are not connected to the garment between the vertical strips 24and the reinforcing strips 20 and 20a. They make an angle ofsubstantially with the longitudinal axis of the garment.

The garment is cut or fashioned so as to follow the contour of the bodyof the garment at the iagoting stitches I8. These fagoting stitches l8permit the corresponding side walls of the garv merit to bend veryeasily and without any objectionable bulges or wrinkles.

The inclined elastic straps 23 and 23a exert inner and downwardlydirected pulls upon the edges of the elastic side panels which areconnected to the front and rear panels so that the garment maintains thedesired snug fit, and does not bend or bulge when the body of the useris bent sideways.

For convenience it may be stated that the straps 23 and 230, areoppositely inclined to the vertical axis of the garment. Said straps arepreferably arranged in vertical rows, and the free portions of saidstraps increase in length above and below the widest parts of strips 20and 20a.

Likewise it may be stated that the free portions of the straps 23 and23a are in registration with each elastic panel 3 so that said freeportions serve to reinforce the elastic panels. The material of saidfree portions may be equally stretchable with the material of theelastic panels or the material of said free portions can be morestretchable or less stretchable than the material of said elasticpanels.

It is to be understood that whenever I refer to a panel in the garment,I intend. to refer to any portion of the garment, as the body of thegarment may be constructed in various ways.

While I prefer to use separate straps 23 and (3a, it would not bedeparting from the invention if each said row of straps was replaced bya single band of elastic material since the free portion of said elasticband or means would increase in length in the manner previouslyindicated.

I have shown a preferred embodiment of my invention, but it is clearthat numerous changes and omissions can be made without departing fromits spirit.

I claim:

A garment having a panel made of elastic material, said panel having areinforcing strip at its inner wall, said reinforcing strip being madeof substantially non-stretchable material, said reinforcing stripcomprising an upper tapered portion and a lower tapered portion, saidportions being oppositely tapered so that the widest ponies of saidreinforcing strip is intermediate the top and bottom thereof, said panelhaving separated edges which are connected by flexible stitches, saidreinforcing strip also having separated edges Which correspond to theseparated edges of the panel, said reinforcing strip and said separatededges being substantially vertical, vertical rows of reinforcing strapslocated on opposite sides of said separated edges, said respective rowsbeing inclined to each other and being inclined upwardly relative tosaid separated edges, the lower ends of said straps being locatedbetween the inner surface of said panel and said reinforcing strip, saidstraps having free portions intermediate their ends, said free portionsincreasing in length from the junction between said tapered portions.

SAMUEL T. METZ.

